Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit August 8, 2003, Nos. 02-1266, 02-1267 (Nippon Steel Corp. v. United States)

LINN, Circuit Judge.

A group of domestic steel producers (“petitioners”), including appellants Bethlehem Steel and U.S. Steel Group (collectively, “Bethlehem”), petitioned the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) to initiate an antidumping investigation of hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products (“hot-rolled steel”) from Japan.